Re: The one they picks/pitch

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:10:25 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Oct 1, 12:14 pm, Ruud Harmsen <r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thu, 1 Oct 2009 07:36:45 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Oct 1, 8:21 am, Ruud Harmsen <r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:19:01 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
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On Sep 30, 12:10 pm, Ruud Harmsen <r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:15:20 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
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This just showed up more than 6 hr later.

Six hours later than what?

Six hours after you posted it.

What's the context? Maybe it's perfectly clear. (Or not.)

There is no context, it was the start of a new thread.

The two lines you quoted by CSN were the start of a thread, and not,
as your link indicated, part of the refrain of a song?

I have no idea what you mean.

Do you not know what "context" means?

My message was the first of a new thread, one that I started.
In it, I included a link to a full version of the lyrics.
In it, I quoted the two lines I wanted to discuss.

You quoted two lines with no context, and you said that the site you
linked to had it wrong.

It would have been appropriate to give the text that (you think) was
right.

I did. "Picks" was wrong and "pick's" was right.

I wrote:
===
This page has it wrong:
http://us.geocities.com/bjaes.geo/lyrics/teach.htm

Only recently (a few weeks ago) I found the solution somewhere (can't
remember where):

The one they pick's / the one you'll know by.
= short for:
The one they pick is / the one you'll know by.
/===

What was wrong was apparent by comparing what I understood after
finding the solution with what in the linked-to page.

So what is it you want to know???

Why you included a link to what you said was an incorrect text.

To show the full lyrics, with all the context. The first page I
happened to find, had the lyrics wrong, so apparently I wasn't the
only one having difficulty parsing it.

A google with these keywords:
"And feed them on your dreams" the one they the one you'll know by
shows that many other pages have it wrong too, with variants such as:
the one they picks
the one they picked
the one they fix
the ones they pick

--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.eu
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